Support Systems

SS_Bees

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Keeping native bees.

  • The importance of bees
  • Types of bees
  • Native stingless bees
  • Where to source a bee hive
  • Attracting bees to your garden
  • Bee hive placement and care
  • The global bee problem

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SS_KeepingChooks
Healthy happy schoolyard chooks.



  • chicken-and-studentWhy keep chooks?
  • What type of chooks?
  • Hatching and raising chickens
  • Getting your garden ready for chooks
  • Housing your chooks (including chook tractors)
  • Feeding and watering you chooks
  • Organic treatments for common chook problems using herbs and home made treatments
  • Chooks in the garden system
  • Incorporating free range chooks into your garden and food forests
  • Council regulations
  • The myth about chooks, rats and snakes
  • Holding a chook
  • Preparing and adding organic preps to their water
  • Using chooks in the garden as pest management and workers

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SS_SupportSpecies


Using plants to support your garden's health
  • comfrey_2Identifying common support species in a sustainable garden
  • The role of support species in an edible schoolgarden, orchard and food forest
  • Using them in garden design
  • Exploring the many uses of plants and their benefits
  • Growing your own mulch, fertilisers and compost activators
  • Growing your own shade and structural plants
  • Identifying various species and how to grow them

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Note: Depending on the level of garden party being delivered (Appetiser or Main Course) the above descriptions may vary.